Ask HN: Show me your tiny but useful project

#1

Post by dholowiski » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 1:58 AM UTC

I just built http://wethr.ca - it only took 3 hours and $5 for a domain name. It's extremely basic, but extremely useful to me as-is. That got me inspired, that I could build something so useful so quickly. So please share your smallest, but most useful project - even if it's super buggy and nowhere near finished yet.

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#2

Post by megamark16 » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 3:43 AM UTC

I threw together http://www.dragdropcomics.com/ to make it easier to create Rage Face comics on Reddit, then I realized that there were already two or three very good and fully fleshed out Rage Face comic web apps, so I kinda left it as is. My idea was that artists could upload their own character sets and people could pick a character set to make a comic out of, but I never really moved beyond the initial version of it.

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#3

Post by akeck » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 4:11 AM UTC

I created a compact plaintext Todo list format: http://www.texttodo.org/. I use it everyday.

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#4

Post by tamersalama » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 4:16 AM UTC

I've created http://mybus.ca to quickly access Calgary bus schedules

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#5

Post by freedw » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 5:35 AM UTC

I created http://brands.tk to get some marketing gigs. I wanted to do something interesting with my time .

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#6

Post by combiclickwise » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 7:00 AM UTC

This one from me http://netreputation.co.uk/extractor/

created it as a way to screen scrape a page easily and generate a rss feed out of it for my other projects.

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#7

Post by alexkay » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 7:19 AM UTC

http://www.hilite.me - source code beautifier

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#8

Post by andor » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 7:53 AM UTC

I made this command line client for arte+7 -- the online archive of the French/German tv station arte:

https://gist.github.com/5723dfec63b24d64bf6a

If you like arte but rather use mplayer than Flash, this might be interesting to you. Note that it supports resuming downloads.

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#9

Post by revorad » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 8:07 AM UTC

Share What You Make - http://swym.me

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#10

Post by SingAlong » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 9:50 AM UTC

Wrote a simple command-line TODO list manager called "j" in ruby. I use it everyday. if you have rubygems, it can b installed by

  gem install j

http://github.com/HashNuke/j